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The Boy Next Door	By : kaesaku Category: Naruto > Yaoi - Male/Male Views: 996 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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kaesaku: The
official NaruSasu theme song has been born!� Because of American Idol David Cook�s popularity, his rendition of Mariah
Carey�s Always Be My Baby has been
played for like every other hour in every other radio station.� And yes, it is the ultimate NaruSasu song.� And
an ultimate LSS (last song syndrome)�

Thanks
to the anonymous reviewers from ff � phil(lip), dark_neko66 and ArcticOokami.� Also to all the reviewers from aff.

Huge thanks
to my beta, Simple-Minded Idiot.

This chapter
is for my friend/officemate/teammate, err, ex-teammate, Albert.� Straight
guys who read yaoi rock.

Warnings: yaoi, NaruSasu,
shit my mind is made off

Standard disclaimers apply.� I don�t own Naruto, The Girl Next
Door, and Dashboard Confessional�s Hands Down.

Chapter 3: Hands Down

"...my hopes are so high that you're
kiss might kill me,

so won't you kill me,

so I die happy.."

-Hands Down, Dashboard
Confessional

Headphones found its way on the
head of a raven-haired boy. Charcoal eyes slid shut as the disc inside
the player, signaling its start, began to turn. A pair
of pale hands were on each side of the ear piece, intently listening to
the song being played.

He was lying on his bed, on his stomach to be
more exact, and had been there for a good twenty minutes when
he felt a presence in his room. He opened an eye and turned his attention
towards his door.

There, he saw his blond-haired neighbor, whose blue eyes were
trained on him, leaning on the door.

The boy on the bed hooked an index finger on the
headphones' strap. The action released the headphones' grasp on his head,
letting it dangle on his neck.

"You know, if you want me to notice you, you
could've knocked," he started, "or talked. I don't have
ESP."

The other boy gasped. "Really
now? I could've sworn you do!" he exclaimed in
mock-surprise. "How else were you able to know that I'm standing
here, Sasuke?"

Sasuke rolled his eyes while
the other boy grinned.

Naruto pushed himself away from the door and strolled
towards the bed.

"So, what'cha listening to?" The blond pointed
to the player. "Which band? Is it cool?"

"It's not some band, idiot," Sasuke replied. "It's Spanish."

"Oh, like Enrique Iglesias?"

Dark eyes glared at him.

"Ricky Martin?"

And glared some more.

"J.Lo?"

And glared some more.

"Or her husband,
Marc Anthony?"

"They're Puerto Rican!"

"Aha, so it's Marc Anthony!"

"No-- I
don't-- It's not--" Sasuke stuttered.

"Sasuke, it's
alright!" The other boy patted him a little too hard on the
back. "Liking Marc Anthony won't get in the way of our
friendship!"

The Uchiha boy mentally
cringed as he realized that the other boy whose blue eyes wide and shining was
completely serious. He took a deep, slow breath.

"Naruto," he
said in an even voice. "I do not like Marc Anthony."

"It's cool--"

"I am not listening to his CD," he
interrupted.

"But I thought--"

"I am listening to a Spanish Conversation
CD."

"Oh, so--"

"I am taking this as an elective this
year."

No response.

Naruto blinked, then, slowly,
he nodded in understanding, his mouth forming an 'o'.

Finally, Sasuke thought. The moron finally got it.

"So then, where is your Marc Anthony
collection?"

A pillow on the tanned face was the answer.

"Ow! Sasuke! I was just joking!" The blond
tried to shield himself from the other boy's non-gentle pillow slaps.
"Stop it! I was just joking!"

Sasuke stopped the pillow
abuse but not the glaring. Although, it did crack after
a nanosecond and was replaced with the two boys' laughter.

"You're a real idiot, you know that?" Sasuke said as he shook his head, his voice having a hint
of affection.

Naruto laughed even
harder. "And you being friends with me makes
you...?"

"A bigger idiot," Sasuke
promptly answered.

The two boys laughed again.

After the laughter died down, Sasuke
reached for the Spanish book and the CD player, which were
both left unattended on his bed, and placed them on top of his bedside
table.

He froze as he noticed something. He was still smiling. Not just any smile,
but that soft, gentle, genuinely happy smile that made one think
of clouds, rainbows, and pink cotton candy.

The Uchiha set his lips
back on its usual grim line so quick that no one would have noticed it. But
someone did. And he could feel that someone's eyes on him.

He stole a quick glance to the other boy and,
sure enough, blue eyes were watching him. Uchiha Sasuke was caught making the cotton candy smile, a totally
un-Sasuke-like facial expression. He almost
flushed in embarrassment. Almost. Because
instead of seeing a teasing grin, what he saw were blue eyes that widened in
surprise -- or was it something else? -- and that were
hastily averted from his face and forced to focus on something as trivial as
the cracks on the wall.

His head started generating appropriate
assumptions to what he just witnessed, but then the loud, annoying -- and
forced, definitely forced -- voice of the other boy broke through his thoughts.

"...Sasuke?"

"Huh?" was Sasuke's
intelligent response.

Naruto looked suspiciously at
him. "I asked you something."

The raven-haired boy racked his brain but
couldn't remember what the blond asked. It was the fault of those evil
assumptions, making him lose attention.

"Which is...?" he stalled as he grabbed
the glass of water by his bedside table and took a sip from it.

Naruto gave him a deadpanned
look. "I said I was hot..."

Water burst out from the Uchiha's
mouth...

"...so I suggested we go swimming," Naruto continued, "and you just gave me a very appropriate
answer."

His face was dripping with water that was sprayed from Sasuke's
mouth.

It took a minute for Sasuke
to react. When he finally did, he jumped from the bed to grab a towel
from his drawers, tripping on his feet in the process.

"Dammit," he
hissed as he rubbed his left leg with one hand while offering the towel to Naruto with another.

"Geez,
bastard," the other boy said as he grabbed the towel, "you could've
just said you didn't want to," he wiped his face vigorously, "...but
no! You had to decline in the most dramatic way and go Old
Faithful geyser on me!"

The almost-flush of Sasuke's
face earlier had turned to a full-fledged one. The gods of karma, he
concluded, had decided that today was the day to collect his payment for all
the times he sneered, insulted, or mocked a faceless someone.

Floor, I command you to open up and swallow me whole!,
he thought.

"Bastard didn't even say he's sorry..."
he heard Naruto muttering.

"It was your fault for saying something
stupid," Sasuke snapped back to hide his
embarrassment.

Wash him up with water from your mouth then insult him, way to go.

He ignored the sarcastic comment from his brain
and continued, "Besides, only an idiot like you would have failed to
notice that our house doesn't exactly have a pool to swim in," he crossed
his arms, "and to think that you've been hauling your ass here for the
past few weeks... You blind or something, moron?"

Naruto squawked
indignantly. He pointed an accusing finger at the Uchiha.
"Oh sure, let's insult the guy who I just sprayed with water from my mouth!"

The Uchiha turned red
at that.

"I know you don't have a pool,
asshole! I meant the pool at the clubhouse!"

And he thought he couldn't get any redder.

Naruto hmph-ed
and crossed his arms. "It's decided. We're going there
now! And you can't say no! Not after washing my face with fresh Uchiha water!"

Approximately eighteen minutes later, the two
boys found themselves in front of a padlocked clubhouse gate.

Sasuke cleared his
throat. "Since the clubhouse is closed, should I go and drink more
water so I can spray it on other parts of your body?"

The other boy gawked at him. "You
would like that, don't you?!"

Sasuke blinked as he realized
the implication of what he just said.

"I-- wha-- no--" he stuttered (again) to the
blond who was stomping his way back to the orange car. "It was just
a joke," the Uchiha mumbled. "A sarcastic joke." He followed the blond
towards the car.

Naruto was still frowning, pouting was more like it, for not being able to go
swimming. Sasuke thought it was childish.
But then, the other boy seemed really excited about it. He sighed.
There was nothing they could do about it.

As if on cue, the boy on the driver's seat
shifted suddenly and, with an exuberant voice, yelled, "Sasuke! I got it!"

"Huh?" Again
with the intelligent responses.

Naruto bounced from
excitement. "I found the solution to our problem!"

"Our problem?"

The blond nodded vigorously.

At Naruto's newfound
enthusiasm, Sasuke found it hard to correct the other
boy that it wasn't their
problem to begin with, seeing that the raven-haired boy never agreed to be
part of the whole swimming advocacy. But the smile blinded him once again
and he lost any intention of doing so. He just didn't have the heart to.

- o -

"Idiot, this," Sasuke
emphasized, "is not our problem! It's your problem and I am not going along
with your so-called
solution!"

"Aww, but you just
said--"

"I take it back."

The orange car was parked outside an unknown and currently
uninhabited house in the far end of the village. Sasuke
wanted to bang his head on the car window after hearing Naruto's
back-up plan to the clubhouse swimming trip.

"Sasuke, it's
fool-proof! See that," he pointed to the house. "No
lights. Gates locked. It means no one's home. And that,"
he pointed to a slim opening on the fence at the side of the house, "will
lead us to where we want to be."

"You want to be," Sasuke corrected
him.

Naruto grunted. "Fine, fine. So, let's go. We're wasting
precious minutes chit-chatting here."

"Trespassing is illegal in most
countries," Sasuke icily said. "That
includes the one we're currently living in!"

"That's why we hurry up! We sneak in, get naked,
take a dip, and get out. Just like wham, bam, thank you, ma'am!"

Sasuke eyed him warily.

"...or, err, something like that. Ahehehe..." Naruto
scratched the back of his neck.

"I'm not doing it."

Naruto panicked. "Bastard, you can't not do it! You promised! C'mon, please!
It'll be really quick. We'll be out there before the owner finds
out!"

Sasuke watched Naruto with impassive eyes but he, too, was slowly
panicking in the inside.

He's doing it! He's doing the doe-eyed-pouty-lips
combination! I'm not gonna say yes! I'm
not gonna say yes!

"How can you be sure that they won't arrive
while we're in there?"

"I'm not!" Naruto
grinned. "That's what makes it exciting!"

Sasuke smacked him.
"Idiot, you just said--"

The blond raised both hands in surrender.
"Okay, okay. I'm not sure about that. But the good thing is
that fence." He pointed to the slight opening again. "The
first thing that they'll do when they arrive is to open the house lights and
we'll be able to see that from the pool. We'll make a run for it once
that happens."

Sasuke carefully considered
what the other boy said.

The pool was in the backyard. The residents of the house would have to go
inside the house through the front door, then open the
lights before they could go about roaming the house. They wouldn't be
able to get to the pool without announcing their presence first was what Sasuke thought when he saw the sliding glass doors adjacent
to the pool. Unless they decided to sneak to the side
via the dented fence...

Which is unlikely, Sasuke countered.

He turned to Naruto,
his mind made up with a decision. Naruto gave
him a hopeful look.

"You owe me a big one for this, Uzumaki," he said evenly.

Naruto slowly smiled. The same cotton candy smile that Sasuke
had been seeing -- and doing -- a lot lately.

"I'll be ready when you collect."

The two boys nodded to each other and got out of
the car, which was partly hidden in the bushes. They didn't bother
locking up so it wouldn't be a hassle when it was time to escape.

They got inside smoothly. The house was
definitely deserted. It was a little dark; it flitted to Sasuke's mind that it was a little after five when they
left their house.

"Yahoo! Success!" Naruto exclaimed.
He took off his shirt and started unbuttoning his pants.

That got Sasuke to
panic.

"O-oi, what're you
doing?"

"Getting naked. I did say our
plan was to sneak inside, get naked, take a dip, and get out, right?" Naruto asked holding up four fingers, the thumb tucked
away. "We're currently running here," he wiggled his middle
finger.

"But-- swimsuit!" Sasuke sputtered.

Naruto rolled his eyes and
swiftly pulled down his pants along with his underwear. Sasuke instinctively looked down. He mentally kicked
himself and turned his attention to the pool.

"Time is the essence here, bastard.
Just in case you forgot, we're doing an illegal thing." A tanned
foot tested the pool temperature. "We can't afford changing to
swimsuits and back." He pulled himself down the pool once he deemed
that the temperature was okay. "Why? Is getting naked making you
uncomfortable?"

"N-no," Sasuke
replied.

Naruto snickered.
"No need to be shy! If I recall, you've seen me naked and I've seen
you naked. All on our first day."

Sasuke cringed as he
remembered that incident. "I'm not shy!"

The boy in the pool snickered some more. "By all
means, then."

The raven-haired boy pursed his lips. "Fine." He grabbed the hem of his shirt and
noticed that blue eyes were still trained on him. "Do you
mind?"

Naruto snorted but turned away
from him. "I'm sorry if I was offending you," he said
sarcastically. He turned back once he felt the water move, signaling Sasuke's arrival.

"All this for this," Sasuke
grumbled, not meeting Naruto's eye. "I
could've done this in our bathtub."

Naruto laughed.
"The effect wouldn't be the same." He dipped and it took a
couple of minutes before the blond head emerged again. He was on the
other side of the pool, across Sasuke.

"Whatever," Sasuke
said. He ignored the way his heart jumped when he saw Naruto
brush the wet hair away from his face. He ignored the way his stomach
fluttered when Naruto leaned back on the pool bank
with his eyes shut and his visage facing the sky.

Sasuke closed his eyes and
submerged himself in the water. He stayed there for as long as he could, blowing bubbles from his nose, until he couldn't take it
anymore. He took in large gulps of air when he went back up.

"You okay?" Naruto
asked. "You were down there for quite some time."

Sasuke grunted in reply.

"So, is the effect the same from your
bathtub?"

In spite of himself, Sasuke
smiled, though he didn't answer the question.

"This is the life," Naruto
sighed. "You should make your parents get you guys your own
pool."

"Maybe if Itachi
asked, they'd say yes," Sasuke said.

Naruto laughed again.
When he quieted down, Sasuke noticed the other boy's
full attention on him.

"What?" he asked, feeling a bit self-conscious.

"Hmm... I was wondering..."
The tanned boy pushed himself away from the pool bank and waded towards Sasuke slowly. "What's the craziest thing you've
done lately?"

Despite the cool water, Sasuke
felt himself heat up. He was pretty sure it reflected on his
cheeks. He was just not sure whether it was from the question or from the
person who asked the question, who was currently getting nearer.

"This tops the list," he answered
weakly.

"That's good to know," Naruto said softly and Sasuke
wondered when the other boy got in front of him.

"Would you like to make new record?"
the blond asked seriously as he took another step forward.

"What..." Sasuke
took a step back and felt the tiles on his back. He was cornered.
There was nowhere to go, not like he would like to be in another place
anyway. "...do you mean?"

Naruto glanced at his lips and
he licked it self-consciously. Blue eyes met black ones.

"Sasuke...?"

His name sounded, no, felt nearer.

"Yes?"

Naruto inched closer, although
they weren't that far apart to begin with. A tanned arm braced itself on
one side of his head.

Sasuke's breath hitched at what
was about to happen.

Naruto's face leaned closer...

Sasuke's eyes slid shut...

And the house lights switched on.

The blond backed up a bit. He lowered
himself on the pool, leaving his eyes above water-level.

Sasuke, still in shock, was
quite disappointed that Naruto abruptly stopped what
he was supposed to do. His eyes followed Naruto's
movements. It was only when Naruto was beside
him, hands on the pool bank, facing the sliding glass doors, that he noticed
something. The house lights were on.

"Shit!" he whispered and quickly ducked
his face on the pool, leaving his eyes above water-level.

"That's quite a late reaction," Naruto dryly commented. He went back to looking at
the glass door.

"Why didn't you tell me?" he hissed.

"Hey, we're both here! I assumed we
both saw it when it happened," Naruto
retorted. "And relax, will you? We're not seen from
here. Unless she walks over to take a dip as
well."

"She?" Sasuke sidled up to Naruto and
slowly took a peek.

"Yeah, a she. Damn. Look
at those jugs! Probably the biggest I've ever seen! And believe me,
I've seen a lot!"

Naruto's comment vaguely
registered in Sasuke's mind as he recognized the
inhabitant of the house. His eyes widened. Of all
people...

"Oh my god."

"You know her?" Naruto
asked.

"Yes," Sasuke
said grimly. "She's Tsunade. Our school principal." He slinked back to the
pool and leaned on the tiles.

Naruto's face was a cross
between amusement and fear.

"We have to go." Sasuke made a move to the pool steps.

Naruto grabbed a pale arm.

"Wait. We can't go yet. We need
to wait for her to move away from the glass door before we make a run for
it."

"But--"

"Trust me," Naruto
assured him and gave him a smile.

Sasuke's panic-stricken mind
betrayed him when it sent a signal to his eyes to stare at Naruto's
lips, reminding him of what they were about to do earlier.

Naruto smirked, as if reading
his thoughts.

"Since it seems like it'll take awhile,
maybe we can continue where we left off...?

Ssauke gulped. "Yeah?"

"Is that a yeah-what or a yeah-sure?" Naruto asked in a hushed voice.

Sasuke's eyes stole a glance to
the glass door before giving a reply. "You tell me."

Naruto gave him a soft smile
and inched closer. But Sasuke, as excited as he
was, still got bothered at the idea of kissing on his principal's swimming pool
while said principal was a few feet away. His eyes darted back and forth
between Naruto and the glass door.

The other boy noticed his discomfort. The
soft smile faltered a little and he stopped moving towards Sasuke.
The raven-haired boy noticed it, too.

"Naruto?" he
called out to the boy whose head was downcast.

The blond lifted his head, smile back in place,
but his eyes held an unreadable expression.

"Let's go," he nodded to Sasuke.

Sasuke wasn't sure if Naruto agreeing with him to leave was a good sign...

They quietly waded to the pool steps, picked up
their discarded clothes, and dashed to the exit.

...because he sure as
hell felt that, in some way, he struck out with the other boy.

On their way out, they failed to notice a blond
head sticking out from the glass door.

- o -

Sasuke's friends, Chouji and Lee, spent Friday nights at Chouji's.
They said it was their video game and movie night. Sasuke
rarely joined them, especially these past few months because of his preparation
for the scholarship speech.

Which was why it came to
a surprise that someone was knocking at Chouji's door
that Friday night.

"Chouji, someone's
knocking," Lee said from his position in front of the TV. "Are
you expecting anyone else?"

"No," he heard Chouji
reply from the kitchen. "My parents aren't expecting anyone
either."

Lee suddenly got an idea. His head popped
from the kitchen door. "Do you think it's Sasuke?"

Chouji looked up from the
salsa dip he was making. "Impossible. He's busy with the
speech." He returned his attention back to the dip. "Why
don't you go and check who it is?"

The taller boy gasped. "Chouji, what if it's a serial killer? How can you ask
me to open the door?"

A vein throbbed on Chouji's
head. "Lee, you are the best martial artist in this town. If
it is a serial killer, which I doubt, you can easily kick his ass."

"I am deeply encouraged with your belief in
my abilities," Lee said as he fisted his right hand and placed it on his
chest.

"Goddammit,
Lee! Just open the damn door!"

"Yes, sir!" he answered as he ran to
the front door.

Lee opened the door widely, ready to greet (or
kick) the unexpected guest. But all mental processes derailed when he saw
what was in front of him.

"Hey," it said.

Before he could summon a reply, which he was sure
was something that'll resemble 'ughblah', Chouji showed up behind him.

"Who is--" A
clatter was heard.

Goodbye, salsa dip.

It would seem that Chouji's
mental processes were headed in the same direction as Lee's.

"A little help, guys?" it asked.
"I'm wet."

It was a boy who looked the same age as them, albeit a little
taller. And with tanned skin that was inked in the
stomach. With three scars on each side of his
cheeks. With blue eyes and blond hair that was dripping with
water.

It was naked.

"Aaaaahhhh!!!" Both boys screamed and hurriedly
closed the door.

A pale hand prevented them from doing so.

"Sasuke?!" They both exclaimed.

Sasuke emerged from the side,
stifling a laugh. They turned to the other boy who was also
laughing.

"You should've seen your faces," Sasuke managed to say in-between laughs.

Both boys looked at each other and back at
the new arrivals. Then, they both burst out laughing.

They'd all been laughing for quite some time when
the blond spoke up. "I hate to break this up, guys, but I'm getting
really cold."

"Oh, of course. Come in," Chouji said as he led the way to the den. "You
must be Naruto."

Naruto grinned. "The one and only. And you guys are Chouji and Lee."

"That's right," Lee chirped.

Chouji noticed that Sasule, although fully-clothed, had dripping hair as well.

"What were you two doing that got both of
you wet?"

"Swimming!" Naruto
answered.

Both boys looked at Sasuke.
"His idea. Long
story."

Everyone turned to Naruto
who, incidentally, was still naked. The boy scratched the back of his
neck.

"Err, Chouji, can
I borrow a towel?"

The big boy smiled. "Sure."
He went up to his room to get one.

"So what were you guys doing?" Sasuke asked Lee.

"Before you arrived, Chouji
was preparing the food and I was scanning the channels," Lee
replied. "We weren't really planning on staying cooped up here all
night."

"You guys going out?"

"Yeah," Chouji
answered as he descended the stairs. He threw the towel to Naruto who caught it swiftly. "We were planning
on going to Neji's party."

"Oh."

The two boys looked at each other.

"Why don't you join us, Sasuke?"
Lee inquired. "Since you're already out.
Plus, I'm pretty sure Naruto would like to be
acquainted with other people his age."

"Yeah, c'mon, Sasuke! Let's go! Party!"
Naruto exclaimed.

Sasuke frowned. He
didn't want Naruto to get acquainted with people his
age. Add the fact that it was Hyuuga Neji's party...

"But it's Hyuuga's
party..."

"So?" Chouji said.
"Whoever's party it is, it has free food and free booze in it!"

"Forget the rivalry with him, Sasuke," Lee added. "Even just for a
night."

Chouji nodded. "And
I bet there'll be so many people that he won't even notice you." In
a low voice, he muttered, "That'll spare the rest of us civilization with
your glare wars."

Sasuke glared at him.
Then, "Fine."

"Okay! Party!"

The four boys headed out to the Hyuuga's.

- o -

Chouji was right. There
were lots of people. The party was packed. As how
it was when a senior threw a party.

Music was blaring from the speakers, teenagers
streamed in and out of the house with bottles of beer, some with paper cups
filled with an unknown alcoholic mix. Sasuke
saw faces he recognized, faces he didn't. It was like the whole school
population was in there.

The boys walked inside the house where some
people danced to the music, some engaged in beer-drinking contests, and some,
unabashedly, made out with each other.

They reached the door that opened to the Hyuuga's enormous backyard and where most of the people
stayed. In Sasuke's mind, it shouldn't be
called a backyard. It should be called a vacant lot where another house
could be built in. It was that big. And it had a swimming pool,
much to Sasuke's irritation.

"Whoa," he heard Naruto
say.

They observed the surroundings for a while before
going off to different ways. Chouji headed to
the booze and food area, Lee saw someone from the karate club, and that left Sasuke and Naruto. Again.

"So," he turned to the blond.
"What do you want to do?"

Blue eyes glanced at the pool.

"No way."

Naruto laughed. "Just kidding. How about a
drink?"

"I got it," a voice from behind
replied.

Sasuke's blood ran cold as he
recognized that familiar voice. He slowly turned and was face-to-face
with none other than the host of the party, Hyuuga Neji.

Damn Chouji!

Neji handed a paper cup to Naruto. "My apologies, Uchiha. I only got one. Why don't you go
to the kitchen and get one for yourself, hm?"

Sasuke gritted his teeth in
annoyance.

"But before you do that, why don't you
introduce me first to your companion?"

"You can talk, can't you? Then, do it
yourself!" With that, he stomped towards the kitchen. Though he
wasn't really sure where it was, as long as it took him away from the Hyuuga.

"Sasuke,
wait--" Naruto started but was abruptly
stopped by Neji's hand.

"It's alright. Uchiha's
never been one to party," Neji said
matter-of-factly. "I'm pretty sure once he gets a little booze in,
he'd turn a bit sociable."

Sasuke fisted his hands at Neji's audacity to insult him while he was still within
earshot. He hurriedly walked away, not bothering to hear the
introductions made by the two boys.

Luckily, he made it to the kitchen without
getting lost. He grabbed an untouched paper cup and quickly downed
it. He almost blanched at the taste. He took a deep breath to
steady himself and grabbed another paper cup. He carelessly threw it to
his side when he was done and wiped his lips with the back of his hand.

That was when he realized that, in a hurry to get
away from the Hyuuga's oppressing presence, he forgot
all about Naruto. His blond,
idiot-of-a-neighbor (which, hopefully, would turn into something more) was left
alone in the evil clutches of his rival.

The raven-haired boy scrambled from his position
in the kitchen and hurriedly went on his quest to retrieve the blond.

He noticed that they weren't on the place where
he last saw them. Black eyes scanned the crowd and finally landed near
the pool where, true enough, he saw Naruto still
talking (and laughing, that idiot!) with the Hyuuga.

He slowly made his way to the two but was stopped
by a grip on his forearm.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you."

Sasuke glared at the hand and
at the person who it belonged to.

"Aburame
Shino."

The boy, who was one of Neji's
friends, looked at Sasuke, his eyes hidden through
sunglasses.

"Isn't it a little dark to wear those?"
Sasuke scoffed.

The other boy ignored the insult, but didn't
loosen the grip on his arm.

"Let go."

"Don't ruin his party."

Sasuke sneered at him.
"Do I look like I give a shit about his party?"

"Leave, Uchiha."

To others, Shino was one of the intimidating guys
in Neji's clique. But Sasuke
didn't back down. He never backed down.

"I don't care about him or his stupid
party. I came to this place with that boy," he pointed at Naruto, "and I'm leaving this place with him.

Shino's grip slowly loosened. If Sasuke could see Shino's eyes, he would've seen a look of
respect with a hint of amusement in it.

"Then go and take him back."

Sasuke turned away from Shino
and resumed walking towards the pair.

Hyuuga Neji.

That name had always left a bitter taste to his
mouth whenever he mentioned it.

The two of them had been bitter rivals ever since
he could remember. Not just the two of them, but the whole Uchiha and Hyuuga clans.

It only became worse after the Itachi incident.

Neji was his competition in everything. Grades,
leadership, the scholarship speech... And now, even Naruto.

Sasuke stalked towards them,
his presence giving off a murderous intent. But when he was only a few
feet away from them, he stopped.

It wasn't about Neji.

He looked towards the pair again, Neji talking in-between sips and Naruto
smiling, even laughing, every now and then.

Everything fell into place and Sasuke saw everything in a new light. It didn't
matter if the other person was Neji or not. It
didn't matter if it was his childhood rival or a nameless
someone. Because, at that moment, Sasuke
realized that regardless of whoever the other
person might be, if Naruto gave his smile, his laugh
to someone else other than him, it hurt. It hurt so bad.

The raven-haired boy crossed the few feet between
them. The Hyuuga was the first to notice his
presence.

"Uchiha, what took
you so long? I thought--"

He placed a hand on Neji's
chest and pushed him back a little. He wedged himself between the other
boy and Naruto. The Hyuuga
let out an indignant sound, but he was none of Sasuke's
concern at the moment.

His only concern was...

Naruto raised his eyebrows
inquiringly at Sasuke. Before he could voice
out his question, a pale hand snaked its way to his neck and pulled him
down for a kiss.

Sasuke saw blue eyes widen in
surprise. They slowly slid shut after the surprise wore off.

Naruto's lips were soft and wet and nice.

Sasuke shifted closer so he could get closer to that,
closer to Naruto. He felt the other boy's hands
hold onto his waist, one of them slowly moving to the small of his back.
He felt Naruto's teeth pulling at his lower lip,
coaxing him to open up for the other boy. Sasuke
willingly obliged and made way for Naruto's
tongue. The raven-haired boy moaned at the sensation and raised his other
hand to cup Naruto's face so he could get closer,
much closer.

So close that he could taste Naruto's
breath mingled with his, so close that he could feel Naruto's
heart beat against his own, so close that he could see Naruto's
eyes reflecting what it saw on his...

Amidst the catcalls and the cheers from the party
people, Uchiha Sasuke's
world narrowed to that small space between him and Uzumaki
Naruto.

It was the place where he had his best, first
kiss.

- tbc -
- 3
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